Originally published: “What Search Consultants Do,” Inside Higher Ed, August 5, 2009 Curious, a commenter on my IHE piece, “How Candidates Can Stand Out (in a Good Way),” wrote, “It is hard not to think that when search consultants are involved, the search...
Originally published: “How Candidates Can Stand Out (in a Good Way),” Inside Higher Ed, May 13, 2009 Candidates in all searches, administrative and faculty alike, are inevitably confronted with variables that they cannot control, most notably the strength...
Originally published: College drinking: the elephant on campus, op-ed piece in The Seattle Times (January 31, 2000) Shortly after returning home from a National Institute on Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) meeting on college drinking, I learned that a student from...
Originally published: Charting the Future: Puget Sound’s Next Decade, February 1999 The Board of Trustees has asked me to define my sense of what our institutional goals should be for the coming decade. I have welcomed the exercise because it has served to clarify my...